Morning Service Sunday 24 April 2022

Welcome and Intimations

Prayer and Lord’s Prayer

Our Father, who art in heaven,
hallowed be thy name;
thy kingdom come;
thy will be done;
on earth as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread.
And forgive us our trespasses,
as we forgive those who trespass against us.
And lead us not into temptation;
but deliver us from evil.
For thine is the kingdom,
the power, and the glory
for ever and ever.
Amen.

CH4 510 Jesus Calls Us

1. Jesus calls us here to meet him
   as, through word and song and prayer,
   we affirm God’s promised presence
   where his people live and care.
   Praise the God who keeps his promise ;
   praise the Son who calls us friends ;
   praise the Spirit who, among us,
   to our hopes and fears attends.
   

2. Jesus calls us to confess him
   Word of life and Lord of all,
   sharer of our flesh and frailness,
   saving all who fail or fall.
   Tell his holy human story ;
   tell his tales that all may hear ;
   tell the world that Christ in glory
   came to earth to meet us here.
   

3. Jesus calls us to each other,
   vastly different though we are ;
   creed and colour, class and gender
   neither limit nor debar.
   Join the hand of friend and stranger ;
   join the hands of age and youth ;
   join the faithful and the doubter
   in their common search for truth.
   

4. Jesus calls us to his table
   rooted firm in time and space,
   where the Church in earth and heaven
   finds a common meeting place.
   Share the bread and wine, his body;
   share the love of which we sing;
   share the feast for saints and sinners
   hosted by our Lord and King
   

© John L. Bell (b 1949) and Graham Maule (b. 1958)

1. Acts 5:27-32
2. John 20:19-31

Children’s Message

Known Unknowns 89 The Hand of Heaven

tune: Hyfrydol

1. We, who live by sound and symbol,
   we, who learn from sight and word,
   find these married in the person
   of the one we call our Lord.
   Taking bread to be his body,
   taking wine to be his blood,
   he let thought take flesh in action,
   he let faith take root in food.
   

2. Not just once with special people,
   not just hidden deep in time,
   but wherever Christ is followed,
   earthly fare becomes sublime.
   Though to sound this seems a mystery,
   though to sense it seems absurd,
   yet in faith, which seems like folly,
   we meet Jesus Christ our Lord.
   

3. God our Maker, send your Spirit
   to pervade the bread we break.
   Let it bring the life we long for
   and the love which we forsake.
   Bind us closer to each other,
   both forgiving and forgiven;
   give us grace in this and all things
   to discern the hand of heaven.
   

© John L. Bell (b 1949) and Graham Maule (b. 1958)

Meditation

CH4 432 How Often We, Like Thomas

1. How often we, like Thomas,
   need proof before we trust.
   Lord Jesus, friend of doubters,
   come speak your truth to us.
   We long to feel your presence,
   and gain new faith from you,
   to find, without our seeing,
   the blessing Thomas knew
   

2. You always stand among us,
   no doors can lock you out.
   Your presence reassures us
   though we still live with doubt
   As present-day disciples,
   whose lives by sin are flawed,
   we want to come believing,
   and cry: ‘My Lord, my God!’
   

© Edith Sinclair Downing (b 1922)

COMMUNION

1. Invitation

2. The Story

3. CH4 19 Ye Gates

   1. Ye gates lift up your heads on high;
      ye doors that last for aye,
      be lifted up, that so the King
      of glory enter may.
      But who of glory is the King?
      The mighty Lord is this;
      even that same Lord that great in might
      and strong in battle is;
      even that same Lord that great in might
      and strong in battle is.
      

   2. Ye gates, lift up your heads; ye doors,
      doors that do last for aye,
      be lifted up, that so the King
      of glory enter may.
      But who is he that is the King,
      the King of glory? who is this?
      The Lord of hosts, and none but he,
      the King of glory is;
      The Lord of hosts, and none but he,
      the King of glory is.
      

      Alleluia! alleluia!
      alleluia! alleluia! alleluia!
      Amen, amen, amen.
      

4. Thanksgiving

5. Breaking of Bread

6. Sharing of the Elements

7. Prayer after Communion

Offering

Prayer of Intercession

CH4 804 You Shall Go Out with Joy

1. You shall go out with joy
   And be let forth with peace,
   And the mountains and the hills
   Will break forth before you.
   There’ll be shouts of joy
   And the trees of the fields
   Will clap, will clap their hands.
   
   And the trees of the fields
   Will clap, will clap their hands.
   The trees of the fields
   Will clap their hands,
   The trees of the fields
   Will clap their hands,
   While you go out with joy.
   

© Stuart Dauermann / Steffi Rubin

Blessing